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Tag Archives: Persuasion

Coincidence in Persuasion

June 8, 2018

“Coincidence can be an important element in the novelist’s armoury, providing it is handled with discretion,” writes Maggie Lane in …

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Anne Elliot’s Journeys of Body and Mind

June 1, 2018

Hazel Jones says she is “a confirmed Austen addict, having fallen in love with Henry Tilney at the age of …

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What Women Most Desire: Anne Elliot’s Self-discovery

May 25, 2018

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you may remember Maggie Arnold’s guest posts on Mansfield Park and …

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Three Generations in Search of Anne Elliot

May 18, 2018

In 2014, when I hosted a celebration in honour of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Mary Lu Roffey Redden wrote a …

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What Anne Knew

May 4, 2018

“Anne at the beginning of Persuasion has nothing to learn, no knowledge to gain from ‘till this moment I never …

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Revisiting Persuasion: Jane Austen on history and History

April 27, 2018

Today’s guest post is by Daniel Woolf, Professor of History, and Principal and Vice-Chancellor, at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. …

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Jane Austen and Adventure

April 20, 2018

Is Anne Elliot Jane Austen’s most adventurous heroine? This is the question Elisabeth Lenckos addresses in her guest post for …

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Sir Walter Elliot Sleeps Through History

April 13, 2018

Bao Bui is a lecturer in the Department of History at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas, and he …

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“…a something ready for publication…” ~ The Publishing Journey of Jane Austen’s Persuasion

April 6, 2018

Deborah Barnum wrote about the publishing history of Northanger Abbey in December, at the beginning of my blog series “Youth …

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The Vanity of Human Riches: A Conversation About Class and Wealth in Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

March 30, 2018

In today’s guest post for “Youth and Experience,” Deborah Knuth Klenck and Ted Scheinman discuss both Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. …

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Welcome!

I write about Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, L.M. Montgomery, and other writers I admire, and I’ve hosted a few online celebrations here in honour of the 200th anniversaries of Jane Austen’s novels. After completing my PhD in 19th century English literature at Dalhousie University, I held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, and then I taught for a few years in the Writing Program at Harvard University. I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and I’m currently working on a novel.

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Youth and Experience

Youth and Experience

A blog series celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.

Emma in the Snow

Emma in the Snow

Guest posts in honour of the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's Emma.

Essays

Approaches to Teaching Austen's Mansfield Park

My essay “The Tragic Action of Mansfield Park" appears in Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Mansfield Park.

Among the Proto-Janeites

"Among the Proto-Janeites: Reading Mansfield Park for Consolation in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1815" was published in Persuasions On-Line 35.1.

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An Invitation to Mansfield Park

An Invitation to Mansfield Park

A series of guest posts celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.

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